Highwind
[H]ard|Gawd
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I farted today and the room smelled like solder. I am art.
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I farted today and the room smelled like solder. I am art.
Is it a statement? Yes. Is it Art? No.
The discussion being had here is not about the pieces statement but whether or not it qualifies as art. The hard drive in no way (for me at least) offers expansion of or insight into the human experience or the way I interpret the world. Art has to have a definition otherwise it has no meaning but everyone gets to define it for themselves.
Defining art is problematic. I don't consider it art, good , bad, or otherwise, either. But others do. So to me it is not art, to some one else it is.
To quote Duke Nukem, "What now, shit finger-painting?" A line has to be drawn somewhere. I use effort and some degree of skill requirement as my gauge. If it looks like someone cobbled something together in just a few minutes that *I* could cobble together in a few minutes, then it's not art. Throwing cans of paint at a wall is not art. I don't call it art when I fly over a convertible and crap on the guy driving it. It may be funny as hell to me but that doesn't make it art. If I were to paint the Mona Lisa out of bird poop then I could call it art because it would definitely take a lot of effort and skill (and poop) to do so.
I don't disagree at all. A hard drive sitting on a pedestal is not art imho. However, in the not so humble opinions found in the art world, or among those that consider themselves the artistic elite, it is art. I doubt we could convince them otherwise, just as they are not likely to convince us otherwise.
I am merely pointing out that the line we wish to draw is not a straight or stationary one, once other people, with other ideas of what art is get involved.
Is this stage prop a cool commentary on a facet of current society? It sure is imho.
Is it art? Not in my opinion.